ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,795, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Illumina Inc. (San Diego).

"Compositions, methods, kits, cartridges, and systems for sequencing reagents" was invented by Yin Nah Teo (Singapore), Karen Goh (Singapore), Dorry Poa (Singapore), Oliver Miller (Linton, Great Britain), Sergio Peisajovich (San Diego), Trina Osothprarop (San Diego), Youna Ro (San Diego), Sebastien Ricoult (Sawston, Great Britain) and Dale Weekes (Haverhill, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a composition including one or more modified nucleotide, wherein the modified nucleotide comprises a purine or pyrimidine base and a s...